Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 200

“Your Royal Highness must be improving considerably,” said the shadow, “I know your complaint is, that you see too clearly, but it has decreased, you are cured.

Who acts: Royal Highness, shadow, complaint, your · What happens: improve, say, know, be, decrease, cure · To what, where: complaint, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Royal Highness, shadow, complaint, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 improving	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Highness	nmod:poss
3	Royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Highness	amod
4	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 improving	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 improving	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 improving	aux
7	improving	improve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
8	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	7 improving	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 improving	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 improving	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shadow	det
13	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 complaint	nmod:poss
19	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 see	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 see	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	ccomp
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 clearly	advmod
26	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 decreased	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 decreased	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 decreased	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 decreased	aux
31	decreased	decrease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cured	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 cured	nsubj:pass
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 cured	aux:pass
35	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 decreased	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	improve in a quote	must · progressive	Your Royal Highness		considerably property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the shadow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the shadow = shadow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	your complaint		clearly, see property	tree rules
5	decrease in a quote	present · perfect · passive		complaint		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	cure in a quote	present · passive		you		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
7	complain in a quote		your			nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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